“Moment” is a new app that exposes a developing problem, smart phone addiction. Not only can it tell users how often they are on their phone, but it can tell them where they use it.
The Moment app is free to start out, but to make much progress users will eventually have to pay $1.99. Users may find it to be a small price to pay when its purpose is to reconnect them with people. The app enables users to set limits to track their daily usage, and it blasts a warning when they are at the edge of their set limit and again when they have blown through their daily ration of smartphone use.
The free version of the app does not set hard limits; until you pay, all you can do is view usage statistics. Developer Kevin Holesh gave up some background on the idea in an open letter on Moment‘s Web page:
“I built Moment to help nudge me in the right direction by automatically tracking my daily iPhone use and giving me a warning when I’m on it for too long. When I first started using Moment, I was spending 75 minutes or more on my phone every single day. I currently have my daily limit set to 40 minutes, so after 40 minutes on my iPhone for the day, I get an annoying buzzer telling me to look away from the glowing box in my hands. That’s a good amount of time for me right now, and I’m working on improving that further.”
Phone users all create unbreakable excuses to gaze at their smart phones every few minutes. “I’m checking job emails,” “The babysitter’s watching my daughter” or “Really, I’m just checking work emails.”
Connecting through social media may seem great, but too much of anything is bad. People need a reason to diminish their phone usage. The Moment app just might do the trick.
Moment is not available for Android yet. Users who leave their email address on inthemoment.io will be among the first to know when it does become available.
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